What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 3/12/2017 at 9:40 AM, usagi said:

beat Mass Effect 2. reminded me what I enjoyed about this series. good shiz. lost 4 members of my team though :(

That game is awesome. I played through it twice. Probably put in 140 hours combined.

fun little (hour and a half) video talking about breath of the wild development. 

has some minor spoilers/puzzle solutions so maybe watch after having played for a bit if you're planning on playing ? or not, if you don't care, up to you. 

this is kind of a nintendo ad i guess if u wanna view it that way.. so seriously. apologies in advance. 

im still obsessing over this game atm ;-; 

got a Switch & Zelda too.. loving it! Can't put this down. No idea how to check progress percentage but just beat the first dungeon. Have seen most of the south eastern things, pretty sure there's a lot to still discover. Haven't even been to any desert yet. Also tried fighting/sneaking past some guardians but think I'm too weak for that. Insane how much attention to detail is in this game!

I'm also one of those people without a TV so have used it handheld exclusively. The last time I bought any video game hardware was more than 15 years ago (PS2). Now both my girlfriend and me got a Switch.. hope it won't fail lol, fingers crossed for a Metroid future!

  On 3/13/2017 at 11:22 AM, bitroast said:

this is kind of a nintendo ad i guess if u wanna view it that way.. so seriously. apologies in advance. 

im still obsessing over this game atm ;-; 

Read that people have figured out two ways to spam the Amiibo rare loot drops:

1. don't save after the drop, and reload your previous save if the loot is lame

2. disconnect Switch from the net, and set your internal clock ahead one day after every drop, to collect things like full sets of armor, super rare weapons, or classic Link costumes.

some Amiibo prices, like Smash Bros Link, and the 30th Anniv. Zelda sets have gone thru the roof in the last 2 weeks.  Even the Animal Crossing cards, and Shadow Metwo Amiibo card work with BOTW.

the switch is expensive enough without getting into the amiibo insanity. 

  On 3/13/2017 at 12:26 PM, bitroast said:

the switch is expensive enough without getting into the amiibo insanity. 

When you disable the Amiibo functionality in options, how does it do loot drops, are the chests simply location based, or do they appear after defeating an enemy?

Random loot drops in a Zelda game that are enabled by buying plastic figures ?! Nintendo plz....

  On 3/13/2017 at 1:38 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 3/13/2017 at 12:26 PM, bitroast said:

the switch is expensive enough without getting into the amiibo insanity. 

 

When you disable the Amiibo functionality in options, how does it do loot drops, are the chests simply location based, or do they appear after defeating an enemy?

 

in game, there's chests scattered around the overworld that you can stumble onto. some are just sitting there for opening, some are obscured with some little puzzle (like, a chest on a high up perch or in a middle of a pond and you need to use your items + brains to figure out how to get to them. then there's also enemy camps that have 1 locked chest, and you have to clear out all the enemies to unlock the chest. 

as for what the amiibo's unlock, i have no idea. but i'm guessing they're just adding extra items or something? maybe some unique stuff. 

  On 3/13/2017 at 1:59 PM, mcbpete said:

Random loot drops in a Zelda game that are enabled by buying plastic figures ?! Nintendo plz....

the amiibos have always had the NFC tech that unlocks stuff in games. it's like mini DLC/micro transactions that are purchased via the toys. the toys appeal to kids / man children + the limited nature of amiibos make them collectors items (allegedly?). it's smart tactics for nintendo that's entirely possible to ignore if you don't give a shit about amiibos/microtransaction bonus stuff. 

it's no worse than any other game locking stuff behind unnecessary paywalls, except you get to collect toys in the process and that's fuuuuuuuuuuun (allegedly?). 

i'm thinking about the loot question again and realising i have no idea which chests are random and which are fixed. i have no idea sorry !

  On 3/13/2017 at 2:30 PM, bitroast said:

i'm thinking about the loot question again and realising i have no idea which chests are random and which are fixed. i have no idea sorry !

for people who bought Amiibos 3 years ago, it's cool they work in a brand new game, but it's also cool you can disable their functionality for players who think they're wank anyway.  I also like the fact that they work across 3 consoles; 3DS, Wii U and Switch so you get more bang for your buck than say a Skylander or poor Disney Infinity that got cancelled.  Really, only the Zelda figures are worth scanning, as any other character or card gives you random crap you'd run across and probly not bother picking up.

i mean, you don't need to disable anything. you opt in by pressing the amiibo to the controller. 

  On 3/13/2017 at 3:06 PM, bitroast said:

i mean, you don't need to disable anything. you opt in by pressing the amiibo to the controller.

I plan on using my figures, but there is an option at the top of the screen to disable them, so I just was asking does the game make those items available in other chests.

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hey all good. i'm just happy to keep talking zelda. switching the map to Pro Mode btw is how i've been playing most of the game. it removes alot of the onscreen prompts so i guess it's good to keep the map on normal during the starting initial areas and by all means you may prefer to keep the minimap on ... but i've been loving being able to play the game with the minimap off and boost that sense of exploration and freeform wandering. another thing i realised that made me enjoy the game more was .. i can ride a horse to get to places quicker, but i prefer traversing areas by foot and soaking in the area. much easier to miss the small details when galloping past everything quickly on an animal. 

ugh, sorry sorry sorry @ everyone that's not rubin farr. i need a zelda thread so i can keep posting. 

  On 3/13/2017 at 11:55 AM, hoggy said:

 

  On 3/13/2017 at 3:18 AM, hoggy said:

Binding of isaac, pretty disappointed so far, got it after hearing about it on Duncan Trussell podcast

 

ok it does get better when you start collecting powerups

 

this game is deep. like incredibly deep. for a beginner i would possibly recommend uninstalling the DLC, they make it more varied but also more difficult, and it is an incredibly difficult game anyway. 

  On 3/13/2017 at 12:06 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 3/13/2017 at 11:22 AM, bitroast said:

this is kind of a nintendo ad i guess if u wanna view it that way.. so seriously. apologies in advance. 

im still obsessing over this game atm ;-; 

 

Read that people have figured out two ways to spam the Amiibo rare loot drops:

 

1. don't save after the drop, and reload your previous save if the loot is lame

2. disconnect Switch from the net, and set your internal clock ahead one day after every drop, to collect things like full sets of armor, super rare weapons, or classic Link costumes.

 

some Amiibo prices, like Smash Bros Link, and the 30th Anniv. Zelda sets have gone thru the roof in the last 2 weeks.  Even the Animal Crossing cards, and Shadow Metwo Amiibo card work with BOTW.

 

The Animal Crossing cards work with BOTW?

My daughter and I started playing it finally this weekend... amazing game. Used the Link on Horseback Amiibo and got a random chest and a bunch of consumables, but we haven't tried any other Amiibos.

I see those 30th Anniversary Zelda sets at Walmart all the time - the BOTW Amiibo are sold out though in most places. We only picked up Link, Zelda, and Link on horseback. I don't like how Nintendo prices them higher than normal Amiibo (the Guardian I can understand due to the size, but the others are not much bigger than normal Amiibo.

The thing that saddens me is the game is beautiful, but the low-resolution hurts the presentation at times. I wistfully think of what BOTW would look like at 1080P/60 on PS4 had Nintendo decided to finally forego hardware.

It really is impressive how massive this game really is - my daughter was shocked when she realized the initial area you start out in (which is massive on its own) is only a very, very small part of the overall overworld map.

Isn't the Wii U version locked at 720p? while the Switch version bumps it up to 900p in TV mode I believe.

ps - for people worried about the dock scratching your screen, saw some custom made microfiber covers on etsy:

wee glad you're enjoying it joy and mini joy. 

Not playing anything at the moment, but building a new PC. It's a beast.

Hopefully ready by the end of the week, and I'll get a 4k monitor and maybe Deus Ex and a few other newer games.

  On 3/13/2017 at 4:09 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Isn't the Wii U version locked at 720p? while the Switch version bumps it up to 900p in TV mode I believe.

 

 

ps - for people worried about the dock scratching your screen, saw some custom made microfiber covers on etsy:

 

 

Yes, the visuals are locked at 720P but honestly some of the shadow resolutions and edges look 480P at at times 

  On 3/13/2017 at 11:04 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 3/13/2017 at 4:09 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Isn't the Wii U version locked at 720p? while the Switch version bumps it up to 900p in TV mode I believe.

 

 

ps - for people worried about the dock scratching your screen, saw some custom made microfiber covers on etsy:

 

 

Yes, the visuals are locked at 720P but honestly some of the shadow resolutions and edges look 480P at at times 

 

Mario Kart 8 DX runs at 1080p 60fps now, so I bet it will look amazing as well.

zelda was definitely built around nintendo hardware limitations, wii u never being a powerhouse compared to (then) current gen hardware + switch being a portable tablet thing. 

to me, zelda is a marvel.. regardless of the framerate dips and shitty looking textures. 

Man, Dead Rising 4 kinda ruined everything that was great about 1, 2, and 3. It's forces you through the world, it gives you all the crazy weapons right from the get-go, and it's way too easy. Also, they removed the time aspect which I always hated, but now that they've removed it I see why it was there.

my mate has a switch and dropped his 2xjoycons in grip holder on floor, from sitting down desk height onto carpet.

one of the joycons is now bugging out and is not working  

even for adults some of the design choices with this thing are cheap and seemingly easy to fuck up. 

i feel like if i was a parent with kid, i would not feel comfortable letting them take the thing around as a portable system.

this is coming after spending a good weekend with the switch and really admiring the hardware. the tablet/screen itself is really impressive but it's a damn shame it has so much cheap design choices tacked on.